I will be right here, don’t run away….

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The Shirt Off His Back – Literally!

We love Archie collectibles! Everyone has their secret, or not-so-secret stash of ArchuStuff either lovingly tucked away as treasured memories, or proudly displayed everywhere for the whole world to see! No matter which type of collector you are, this is an opportunity to win a unique, one-of-a-kind ArchuCollectible that’s beyond amazing! Through the generosity of TV5Philippines and @jackryan4DA (The David Chronicles) you can enter a raffle to win the ACTUAL SHIRT that David wore in the “Kite Scene” at the end of Nandito Ako!

This raffle is tied to a voting incentive being offered on The David Chronicles to generate excitement for and participation in the EL Foreign Act Newsmaker of the Year poll. Many Go-Getters have been voting like crazy and it’s been a close race thus far. David is currently in 2nd place, and we’d like to see him at #1! Participation on the Poll Daddy vote to qualify for the incentive is based on the honor code - so if you’re in a voting mood, please visit The David Chronicles for the voting incentive details – Go-Getters GO!!

1,000,000 + Votes for David on EL Poll!

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Fan Tribute Vid – Don’t Run Away

Because we can never hear this song too much!

Don’t Run Away (credit: Steff Archie)

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You Can AOL Sessions on VEVO

You remember the AOL Sessions right? Featuring songs from the debut album, these vids were recorded in HD and the sound is amazing! The AOL Sessions version of You Can just showed up on VEVO and then someone converted it for You Tube so those of you that can’t view the VEVO version, now you can! This brought back so many memories – gotta love that little red gem of an album!

You Can (credit: davidarchuletaVEVO)

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Looking Back: Singapore – Avalon Marina Bay Sands

A year ago this week David was visiting his Singapore fans and held an acoustic concert at the Avalon at Marina Bay Sands. Wonderful memories and awesome fan vids captured all the excitement with the fans singing “backup vocals” with gusto!

Entrance and Wait (credit: NL11394)

TOSOD (credit NL11394)

Heaven (credit: Rachel Tan)

MKOP (credit: Rachel Tan)

My Hands – a cappella (credit: NL11394)

Good Place/Let It Be (credit: Rachel Tan)

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ArchuRandomness – DA14 in the Skies

Not the DA you were thinking of lol – but file this under “Random Things That Remind Us of David” An asteroid named DA14 is hurtling towards the earth, and while it is projected to miss the earth, if you watch the simulation below, it does get a little too close for comfort! For some reason, this article reminded me of the lyric from Everything & More – “…like a satellite we’re flying, overhead where we see it all…”

Someone with better photoshop skillz can edit in the “20″ and turn it into DA2014 lol

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Everything & More – Kuala Lumpur (credit: Rusharr)

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ArchuBUZZ

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Happy Valentine’s Day Kari!

Please send Kari your Valentine best wishes!

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Valentine’s Day is next week! Joanie has started a card for Kari, road manager of the decade and critical member of Team Archuleta!!!! Head on over and sign the card and show her how much you care!

The card will be delivered at 8 am EST on Thursday February 14th, so don’t delay!

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Parting GIFs

It was fun the other night watching a twitter spazzfest that some fans were having – posting links to pics and GIFs of David – each one trying to out-do the other – well, I think in this competition EVERYONE is a winner!

These pics and GIFs were posted via Twitter, so the there are no credits – if you know who owns any one of these, please let us know and we’ll credit.

– Dancing David

– love the hair!

– hmmmmmm

Ok everyone, hang on to your hats!

Looks like something reminded Kari of David!

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Wishing everyone a Fantabulous Friday! What songs are you hoping show up on the track list for No Matter How Far? I wonder how many original songs we’ll get? Personally, I’m hoping Nothing Else Better To Do is on the list, because I LOVE that song, and so many fans would love to have it who don’t have access to the Japanese edition cd. Share your thoughts in comments, and maybe we’ll put together a little poll.

Happy TGIF to all!!! Super fantabulous post, Kalei!!!
BUZZ, BUZZ & more BUZZ!!! Archu-invasion here we come!
The pics!…the closed eyes, the super squishable pics with kids! Just beautiful!
EAM….wanna see him perform it live here one day…..love that song very mucho.
LOL….2012 DA14 Asteroid….the year he left and the year he’ll be back….awesome!

Thank you Kalei.
Some pics i’ve never seen before. lol…i like that one of david ‘listening’ to the baby. And Thank you So Much to whoever converted the vevo to youtube. Off to watch right now….
Oh and boy oh boy….with an incentive like David’s shirt….we HAVE to win that polldaddy poll! Wowza!

Shanny – breadcrumbs sound good. But, yeah song choices could be a good indicator too. Also, since he is such an honest person, it will be interesting to see his reaction when in an interview someone asks him the question they always ask: Are you dating? Are you in love? Etc… I think it’ll be written all over his face, his body language, etc. He’ll try to choose his words carefully but…I don’t know. I think it’ll show. Just my guess.

sarahhazel – Awesome! I’ll be doing the same today.

Alright, off to my son’s school. It’s Book Fair time and I volunteered to help. BBL.

Ksf, that’s true. I don’t think he’d be able to keep a straight face and say ‘no i’ve never been in love’.

Jhen…it may be that HE broke Jennette’s heart….? Maybe he wasn’t sure of what he wanted or maybe he just felt too shy to move beyond friends.
I do remember when she did that chat with her fans and she rang random celebrities whom she is friends with…and one of them was david. I suppose he didn’t know she was going to ring and yet when he was talking to her, he still seemed quiet and unsure and slightly shy – not at all like I would have expected him to be with close buddies whom he hung out with. Unless of course, he did actually know ahead of time that Jennette was going to ring while her fans lustened in. OR…unless things were slightly awkward between tehm maybe?….because if I remember rightly, she called him AFTER that skiing incident.

David is very transparent person that’s what I discovered on him, you can see his body languange if he is interested, excited, curious, nervous, happy, tired etc. He might choose his words but the answers will be written on his face, his actions and his body language.

Jhen, you think so?
Ha now i’m remembering all the talk about him chatting with some missionary sister in the MTC….asking her about the best way to stretch for a run or something. David the runner, asking basic questions about running…? lol And I remember you saying he can be quite flirtatious. I dunno….maybe when he finds the one that really sets his heart a flutter, he’ll lose all nervousness…? That will be an awesome day.

Shanny- David has his way of flirting, he can be aggressive sometimes, I think he like that he moves first, he like to stares lol and he appeared from nowhere lol but maybe if he will tell something like in Jennette case, telling his feeling, he might be nervous and dork lol
Is Jennette an LDS too? I like her, she is funny and bubbly.

Good Morning everyone, Hope everyone is having a good morning so far.
KALEI….Great Post. I love Davids first Gif pic, with his eyes closed. He really gets into the songs he sings.
He’ so adorable with LIL ones. He will make a great Dad some day.
JHEN….Torpe is one of the words we use in Spanish to for Clumsy/Dork, too.
JACKRYAN,…Who wouldn’t want to win that shirt of Davids. Memories of NA.
I remember when the AOL session of YOU CAN first came out. He’s so young.
Work calls today, doing voting duties now, BB
I’m so ready for The TRACKLIST for DRA.

Jhen, oh I see what you mean. Could very well be the case. Especially if he has never had a girlfriend before.
Not sure if Jennette is LDS or not – i’ve done some searching before and there are lots of rumours but the closest thing i could find she has said about religion is ‘I’m a believer’.

I notice that people often compare new david songs to Crush. And there is an underlying assumption that david needs something similar to crush to make it big again.

I can’t help but wonder however if crush became popular in large part due to David’s popularity after idol. You know….people liked david, wanted to support him, convinced themselves it was a great song and in so doing it grew on them, like many songs do when you’ve listened to them several times. Maybe Crush was not awesome in and of itself? Maybe crush is not necessarily the standard we should be measuring everything against?
Just a few random questions to throw out there.

Ksf, yep, i’m thinking when he finds THE one, he will be to head over heels in love to worry about being nervous. He will probably become Mr Romantic and do all sorts of crazy things to let her know how over the moon he feels about her. He feels deeply I would say and seems to know his mind when he has made it up.

The thing that stands out for me in that top pic is that it’s the FIRST time I’ve seen a picture of David performing where you see only males watching him. I know there were women there too, but it just struck me as funny that there’s not a fluttery female to be seen. lol

Shanny – I don’t know…I definitely think people wanted to support David right after Idol and so part of the success of Crush was based on that. But, I really liked Crush and thought (still think) it was a great song — the sound, the content, everything. It’s definitely a standout on his first album and it would have been even if it wasn’t released as his first single. I think in that sense, yeah, he does need a song that has all the right components. People will probably continue to compare sings to Crush because its been his biggest album to date and because it rocks.

That kite picture was one of my all time fav photos from NA, loved the wholesome freshness, plus the fact they would finally be together. I had the b/w photo on my computer but lost it when my hardrive crashed.

kim ‏@kimak
@kariontour was wondering if DRA will be released to itunes on Feb 19.. looking to buzz it up!! thanks!

Kari Sellards ‏@kariontour
@kimak there is another album being released. Who else but @DavidArchie gives you so much!

think that is her way to say nope?
we were talking about getting out the word of his new music on twitter but
couldn’t cause his searches are full of voters.
but since it seems it is not we have until March to buzz it up!
so no worries vote away!!

Speaking of voters…props to JR for coming up with another ingenious idea as a voting incentive. How she got her hands on two such acclaimed prizes from TV5, the NA DVD and THE SHIRT is beyond me! Should make for some crazed voting!

On the ryan seacrest poll or any poll that has so many well-known and successful artists on it, I am really happy for David to be in the top 5. Sometimes when he is #1 on a poll with others who should be at the top of the poll by virtue of their real (by sales/radio, etc.) current success, it can read as a tribute to voting abilities rather than current mainstream at-the-moment “success”. I like to see David always in the mix with those people so non-fans or those not paying attention to him at the moment go “Huh – Brittany, One Direction, John Mayer, David Archuleta…” Keeping him in with the others but not drawing attention to the prowess of the voting abilities of his amazing fan base. So #1 or #5 is great for me!

Thanks for the nice Friday post Kalei.
Love the acoustic songs he did in Singapore. I hope David will make acoustic Album when he return. I hope “Everything and More” is included in his NMHF album. It’s one of my fave song of David.
Hope you all have a fantastic Friday. It’s a snowy Friday here in Ontario, Canada. The snowstorm really hit us so bad this time.

collegemom-I love your way of thinking, makes a lot of sense. Would give credibility to David as an artist versus credit to a lot of fan voting. Didn’t David get an award once for having the most fanatical fans…

Candy not sure? maybe incentive enough folks should make him number #1? got me!
but that makes no sense either cause of the other poll and JR’s incentives?
we were gabbing dougie vid as the incentive I think?
forget the whole convo.
my guess she just came in the middle of it all.
she is at the grammys I think and busy.
was more kidding about getting that vid then anything.

Wow, what an amazing post today!!! The posts are amazing every day because our FOD mods are all so FABULOUS!!! LOVE the tribute vid by Steff Archie. The vlog shots, the announcement shots, the MV shots, DRA…it all goes together so well. I was close to tears watching it.

Goodness, I had NO IDEA that David had ever sung Hey, Soul Sister! How awesome. I completely missed that memo because it was 3 years ago haha. I’m not surprised he did it so well because, as we all know, David really CAN SING ANYTHING! Thanks to Janel for posting the link!

just wanted to share something
I’m from Saudi Arabia ,and i have a scholarship (30,000 shcolars)to study in the U.S
so , they gave us a book about things we should do and shouldn’t do there to help us blend in
and as i was reading the book , guess what ! , i found a picture of the one and only
DAVID ARCHULETA !
i couldn’t believe my eyes !

BTW , that picture (a picture of him when he was in Malaysia , black and blue plaid shirt) it was the first picture i’ve ever had of him

Hello everyone! I’ve missed all the fun around here! I’ve been on vacation with family …..i hesitate to say, ……in Hawaii…..Maui! What a beautiful place! How lucky, Kalei, to live there,( and thanks for another great post today!) I sent warm thoughts to all my fellow cold weather Archie’s…..did you feel them? It was something getting home last night, going from 80 degrees to 10! Got home in time to vote, though, and see it to a million…..was fun!

Pocoelsy….this is late, but have to tell you how much I loved your vid. So sweet seeing David’s first thanking his fans and then again in the Phil’s. The whole thing was really touching….thanks!

And Lucy….that Valentine card was the most perfect card to end all perfect cards! I love it! I haven’t gotten up the nerve yet to ever write to David or send a card. I keep thinking I want to tell him how I became a fan, how moved and changed my heart felt….but just haven’t figured out the right words, I guess. And know he’s too busy to read anything lengthy. I don’t know….maybe when he gets home. Do you guys sign your real names or your screen names when you send him cards? Just curious.

And finally….I love, love, love the NMHF cover! So fresh and fun, with that smile that sorta says, i know something you guys don’t know and are you ever going to be surprised!

nora–YES, HE DID!…..on the Music Video Madness Poll…..the bracket one….it’s a special poll they came up with.
The Cycle polls are weekly (we’re in Cycle 4 now) & from what I understand, whoever remains in the Top 12 at the end of the year will compete for the the Music Video of the Year.
Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.

Linda and nora- I’ve been voting for a while on poll daddy. Have to vote on mxp and then i’m going to bed. See you tomorrow. Snowing here, the weather will get worse over night. Lucky we still have power.

Amazing that David won the Musiqtone Music video of the year poll over Taylor Swift. Taylor wins everything.

Candy – that poll is nothing like the Newsmaker poll. You can only vote 100 times a session, and so far I have only been able to figure out how to vote 200 time a day. It is really easy. Takes me about 5 min. to vote 100 times. The other one someone needs to be voting all the time…the more the better. The Newsmaker poll will be over soon. Those unlimited voting polls are really difficult.

Candy I haven’t been able to figure out how she wins so many awards as I personally don’t think she is all that talented, but she certainly has the respect of a bunch of artists and I am sure they know more than I do about such things. Many say it is because of her song writing, but to me her song writing sounds like stuff I used to write to my girlfriends when I was 12. Her songs pretty much all sound the same to me. Guess I am just too old for her kind of songs. It still was fun to see David win something over people that are really popular especially since he is incognito at the moment.

Candy I think he was the one who got the role that I had mentioned a little while back that maybe (rumors) David was in talks with to do? as I recall there was a rumor about Steven Spielberg’s peeps talking to him? he produces that. nice part.. he will be Kate McPhee’s love interest coming up. spicy my guess.

Hello Everyone! Just stopping by for a few minutes to say Hello & hope everyone on the east coast are safe & sound, toasty warm in their house. We have a snow storm coming too. Tomorrow night into Monday.

I don’t think that David is going to be all that big a hurry to get married since he is well aware of many, many divorces and problems both in his own family and among those both LDS and not with whom he has worked. David has a great head on his shoulders and when he gets married (in the near or far future), he will really want to – that guy is stubborn and realistic but certainly seems to have a romantic streak so I trust him to wait for whatever he perceives is the “real thing”.

Candy, you think he’ll be married by the end of next year!?
Wow, just realised I didn’t see that happening. Maybe 2 or 3 years after he returns but not within 9 months….but who knows…we’re all speculating…maybe never, just like you once said. I think thats a possibility too.

Btw, glad to see the east coasters seem to be weathering the snow so far.

AnGel – congrats on your scholarship! I can bet you must have been completely surprised and excited when you saw dear david! Why was he in there anyway? Was it just a picture or did it say something about him too? So when do you head to the United States?

Hey fans of David, Let’s give it one more try and see if we can’t POWER VOTE for David in the polldaddy poll at 11:00 am EST. I understand it saturates David’s timeline but sometimes we need to take the bad with the good. Think of all the tweets we were saturated by from the philipines about NA, concerts, pictures, videos…..

Jackryan and the other pinoys have come through for us everytime and they more than us know how much David deserves this award. So if you feel we need to support them by helping them vote then great. If not, then just ignore this post!

Pocoelsy – thanks for asking about my head the other day.
Yeah, I would rate it as the second worst headache i’ve ever had and it interrupted my sleep and caused me to miss a whole day of FOD lol but….it was just a headache and eventually went away. Thanks for asking.

Oh my heck! Trying to sleep in on a Saturday morning and there are disgruntled birds squawking and arguing outside my window! I don’t know what they’re fighting about but they really need to take it someplace else. Now I know how David felt with his “Hush, cats!” Except mine is “Hush, birds! Don’t you know that peeps are trying to sleep in. You are soooo inconsiderate!!”

Hi LCT.
Good to see you comment.
I worry about you a little when people disagree about voting cos I know you feel passionate about it.

Kim…what colours are you painting your house? We’re in the middle of painting ours too. Although I guess you’re not necessarily painting your favourite colours but rather what will help it sell well? I’m not painting our favourite colours but rather what will hide the kiddie handprints and won’t tell everyone ‘this wall has been wiped down a hundred times’. I have a thing about marks on my walls – they bother me big time and with 5 kids….they need frequent wiping.

Ksf, ….and it had to be Saturday of all days! Can’t they save their squabbles for a weekday!?
We have birds squawking all hours of the night here which to my mind is completely insane but they’re not usually fighting at least and don’t usually interrupt my sleep.
Oh boy that reminds me….we did used to have some bird that sounded like a dog whinning and it seemed like it would go all hours of the day and night. It used to drive me batty. It must have moved on thank goodness.

Shanny – yeah it’s quite aggravating that they waited til a Saturday morning. And they stayed just long enough to make sure that they woke up everyone in their vicinity before apparently settling their differences and flying off into the sunrise. Lol. The crazy thing is that my husband is still sleeping like a baby! Maybe I’ll get a nap later. A bird that sounded like a whining dog?? All I can say is the animal rights people would not like me very much. ‘What about human rights?’ is what I say.

wonder how this michaela girl think she knows who david is gonna marry? he could marry a fan! really how annoying. but if he does get married i think his career is over.

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